"The GPA is a noisome construct, and misleading. . . an indication of far less than we believe it to be. "
-Boston University Professor Ellen Ruppel Shell
"Employers and graduate programs choose among our graduates on criteria other than grades [such as], courage, ambition, mental toughness, integrity, imagination, compassion, capacity to rebound from reversals, a desire to leave the world a better place than you found it – these are the things that matter in real life.”
-Harry Lewis, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard
"The high school transcript aims to assess student progress and performance, but it is a broken instrument that no longer serves students, teachers or the world outside our school walls."
-The Mastery Transcript